Just For Today

Forever is a lot to ask of yourself. Today is something you can actually hold.

We’re practicing a deceptively simple Reiki-based mantra: “just for today.” It’s a small phrase with big nervous-system benefits, especially when you’re stuck in overthinking, chasing the next version of yourself, or waiting for some future milestone to finally let you relax. We walk through the Reiki principles, just for today I will not anger, just for today I will not worry, just for today I will be grateful, just for today I will do my work honestly, and just for today I will be kind, and we talk about why the simplest spiritual practices can be the hardest to live.

Then we bring it down to real life and self-care: just for today, can I be happy? Can I rest? Can I stop trying to figure out my entire life? Instead of fixating on where everything is going, we return to a more honest prompt: what do I need today? Sometimes the answer is to slow down, go outside, cry, make something, say no, say yes, or do something that looks “unproductive” but is exactly what your body and soul are asking for.

We also explore a reframe that can change how you measure progress: a good day after a good day after a good day is what builds a great life. If you’re into mindfulness, the present moment, Eckhart Tolle-style reminders, or practical spirituality that works on a random Tuesday, this one is for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a gentler day, and leave a review with what you’re practicing just for today.

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Welcome And Why Vulnerability Helps

0:00

Hello and welcome back to the Spiritual Shit Show podcast. I am so grateful that you are here tuning in as I offer what I'm going through, how I'm working through things. And I do so because I have these aha moments every day, and when I am in the throes and the crunchiness of life, what really supports me is when somebody comes in and offers, their vulnerability, their story, their me too, and it just drops it all back down into a really beautiful human level, and it reminds me that I'm here to experience life in its fullness.

The “Just For Today” Practice

0:42

Today's episode I want to share with you something that I am deliberately practicing in my own life right now, and it's something you can take with you into your day This practice was introduced to me over 15 years ago when I started my Reiki certification, and it sounds so simple, but I want you to try it and see how simple it is.

Reiki Principles For Anger And Worry

1:08

This concept is just for today. Just for today In Reiki, the Reiki principles are just for today, I will not anger. Just for today, I will not worry. Just for today, I will be grateful. Just for today, I will do my work honestly. Just for today, I will be kind. And I think what I'm beginning to understand is that some of the simplest spiritual practices are actually the hardest ones to live because we hear things like be present, be here now, let go, choose love, listen to yourself, be in alignment, self-love, just for today. And we're like, "Yes, got it, got it, got it." Be present, power in the present

Ask What You Need Today

1:58

moment, live in alignment, connect with my higher self, be more spiritual And then actually to do it is a little different, and that's why I wanna challenge you as I'm challenging myself to really think about What does this mean to wake up every day and say, "Just for today, can I be happy?" Not when this situation changes, not when I make more money, not when I figure out my marriage or my family or my work or my purpose, not when my body changes, not when I finally get to that vacation, not when I finally heal the thing, but for today. Can I be happy today? Or just for today, can I rest? Just for today, can I listen to what I actually need? Just for today, can I stop trying to figure out my entire fucking life? And again, this is what I've been practicing this week. Instead of asking myself, "Where is all this going? What do I need to do? What do I have to, like, create? This podcast, la-da-da-da-da, all the things." Instead of constantly trying to figure out what the next version of me is, I've been asking, "What do I need today?" And maybe it's just for today, can I be happy? Just for today, can I listen to what is being presented to me? Just for today, can I slow down? Just for today, maybe I make cookies.

A Great Life Is Daily Days

3:35

And as I was walking on my walk yesterday thinking about this, I heard so clearly, a good day after a good day after a good day is what builds a great life. And I stopped because, of course, that's it. We spend so much of our lives with our eyes on the prize. We're building the business. We're healing the wound. We're getting the house. We're, we're working so we can make the money and, like, level up in our life. We're, you know, really working on our relationship or, or we have all these things that we have to do, and we're constantly moving forward towards some future version of our life where we believe we'll finally get to exhale and say, "Okay, now I can enjoy it." But what if that's completely backwards? What if the great life isn't waiting for us at the end of all of our effort? What if the great life is literally being built by how we live today? And I'm sure if you're listening to this podcast, you have also listened to Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, probably have all these other tools and teachings that you have heard before. And just like everything, it's a spiral, so we can always be meeting these teachings and coming back to the breath again, coming back to these concepts again, coming back to the self again. Because that's, that's the journey of the soul. We just keep coming back again and again and again, and how can we meet ourselves over and over and over and over again? So here is a concept that you get to, that I get to- incorporate again just for today And then tomorrow comes and we get another today, and then another, and then another, and then suddenly that's your life. That's the whole thing. Literally, day by day Reminds me of being in Catholic church growing up. I think there was a song called Day by Day. Anyway But that's just to say, again, these teachings are ever present for us, and somehow we just get hooked into setting the goal, not living life until we reach that goal, and then we set another goal, and then we hustle and hammer through our days trying to achieve that goal. And where is the life in between? Where's the magic? just for today. One deliberate day at a time. And I think that's why this practice is actually harder than it sounds because sometimes it's easier to hustle towards a future than it is to inhabit the life you're living now. It literally has been what the spiritual shit show has been. If I can, if I could have Well, I won't-- I don't wanna say that 'cause everything really brought me to where I am now.

Permission To Rest And Listen

6:41

So I have to have grace and appreciation for how I moved through my own healing, scratch that, remembrance journey But just for today asks us to listen, to notice Today might tell you that you need to rest when your mind is telling you to push. Today might tell you to go outside, ride your bike, do something fun. Today might ask you to call somebody, make something, cry, sit your ass on the couch, say no, say yes, whatever. And that's the practice, not some giant spiritual declaration that from this moment forward, I will completely be in the present. Because again, it's a spiral. These things we come back to over and over and over again. But it's smaller, and it's more human, and it's a really...

Closing Reminder And Try It

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Well, try. Try the practice and let me know how you feel just for today And then I'll end this with how we started, which is these Reiki principles Not forever, but just for today, It's not forever I will not worry. It's just for today. It's not forever I will never be angry again. It's just for today. Because forever can feel impossible, but today, I can work with today. So maybe today ask yourself, what do I need just for today? And then give yourself permission to listen to the answer. And then tomorrow, we'll ask the question again Just for today